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So, it spread to my other eye and Bon-Bon called it “a cold in my eye” and took me to the doctor and I have pink eye from the infection I’ve been fighting. She’s going to go back out to pick up some prescription eye drops once she finishes eating.
Aw… That was really sweet. Thank you!
I’ll try to get back into things soon. Just hard to do much with my eyes in the shape they’re in right now.
Anonymous asked: Well it IS pretty sucky.
When it rains, it pours.
Anonymous asked: Whenever I feel my life sucks, I can just look at your blog and think "Wow, at least it doesn't suck as hers". Seriously, it's embarrassing how much your life sucks.
Oh shut the [omitted] up.
Least I can see out of it again.
So, I have a paper towel covering my eye and a bunch of bandaids keeping it attached to my face.
I’d love to know how I strained my left eye playing a video game while my right is totally unaffected. I mean, I figured I just had something in my eye, but I couldn’t look in a mirror because Bon-Bon had just sprayed in the bathrooms because a roach fell on her back when she walked into one.
I look ridiculous. And this on top of still being sick.
This sucks.
1) Tomorrow, I believe. I’ll be too sick for it, though.
2) Probably either an RPG or a strategy game. Though it could have been Armored Core 2. I don’t think The Sims was out yet.
3) That is the question, isn’t it?
4) What truth about Canterlot? Since you seem to know so much, exactly what is the truth?
5) No. We’re a fairytale couple and we’ve never done anything to upset the other, ever.
The good outweighs the bad. That’s all anypony should ask for.
6) See, I never understood why assault-style weapons were legal anywhere. If personal firearms are for self-defense, when are you going to need that much stopping power?
1) I mean, I can dance. But it’s nothin’ world-saving.
2) My bearfriend, preceded by “I’m going to.”
3) Not recently, no. Still pretty sick. Actually sicker today than I was yesterday. Still hoping for a turnaround tomorrow morning so I can get one more work day in before next year.
Here’s a tip, don’t play an action PVP game that you haven’t played in months, while sick. My heart was going nuts and I’m still shaky.
4) The overgeneralization that victims of sexual abuse either wind up obsessing over intercourse or loathing it, overgeneralized into what you said.
5) I’m sorry. I’m a little deaf in one ear. You’ll have to speak a little louder next time.
6) To be honest, I preferred the R.A.D version of controlling giant robots. You know, from outside of the thing.
Well, there’s a long answer and a short answer. The short answer is because, that’s what Griffons called us. As for the long answer, well…
Worlds with multiple sentient species don’t just become intellectually advanced all at once. I don’t know that your world keeps track of this sort of thing, because you’re the only ones, but the process in our world is called ascension. It’s not the most popular subject among ponykind because we weren’t the first to ascend. We weren’t even the second.
To be considered an ascended species requires several things. You have to be capable of organized thought exchange, both verbally and in writing, amongst yourselves and other ascended species. You have to be capable of sustaining yourself in an isolated environment indefinitely (a nomadic lifestyle must be a choice, not a requirement). You have to be capable of creating shelter from raw materials and defend yourself from harsh environmental conditions. And I’m sure I’m missing some, but the most difficult is that you must be able to prove that you, or a community of your peers, can protect themselves against a staged attack by a malicious entity.
It’s debated pretty fiercely between dragons and griffons which ascended first, but we definitely came after both. There will always be those that argue, but there’s pretty definitive evidence. As we were hunted by them, griffons also studied us. When pegasus and unicorns first appeared, they observed pegasus manipulating rainfall to yield more substantial wild growth, and reported mild, though varied magical ability in us long before our recorded history began.
Griffons named us unicorns, which in their language at the time (they’ve gone through a few) meant one-horned, and pegasus were called pterippus- which I’m fortunate enough to be able to manually type out, because I can’t even pronounce that. After our ascension began we kept our name, but the pegasus didn’t.
The story goes that a “hero” by the name of Pegasus united or conquered, depending on interpretation, every major pterippus community and changed the entire species’ name to his own. He did some other stuff but I’m not all that into specifics. To that end, pegasus were the first pony species considered to be ascended, though at that time the term had yet to be defined.
Our hornless, terrestrial cousins have an interesting story. Pony roughly means small horse. Earth ponies were so named once unicorns and pegasus started appearing, as a way of further defining them, because we’re all ponies. But when our ascension began, one group of grounded ponies relied on hard work and close ties to the earth. They became what we recognize today as earth ponies.
Meanwhile the other group, fascinated with magic and the desire to harness it, called themselves crystal ponies. They somehow found that crystals were easier to store magic in and harness magic out of than anything else in the world. They even somehow used magic infused into crystals to create the artifact known as the Crystal Heart. When earth, unicorn, and pegasus ponies had to unite in order to survive, timelines show that crystal ponies had no need for outside help. Though the other three had lost contact with them, crystal ponies were already decades ahead of their time through magically-aided technological advancement. At least, so the story goes.
While on the subject, the last species to be considered ascended were cattle. Both goats and sheep are in the process of ascension.
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Everypony needs this in their lives.
(Source: itscarororo)
2-5) That sounds like everypony else’s problem, not mine.
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7) Well, this is a strange coincidence!
Local awesome artist and nice-pony extraordinaire Sir Lintalot had a game to gift me earlier today! I can only assume somepony referred me, which is super cool (though I would freak if I found out Lints specifically picked me themself)! Either way I made a steam account to receive it.
1) That seems to be a theme in your world. Everypony believes history is absolute, even as stories are retold biased towards whichever country is telling them.
2) Aw. Very mysterious pair, those two. At least for how much they influenced net culture.
3) Nope. Nothin’ bad. Remember that game store? I broke into it once. Not to steal anything, I liked them too much, just to keep playing a game I was obsessing over.
So I hid myself away inside and waited until they forgot about me and left for the night. Then I picked up a controller and started playing. And I played and played and played- so engrossed that I didn’t notice the entire night had passed and they came back to open the shop for the next day! When I finally realized what was happening, they were already inside setting things up! They just kinda walked around me!
Once they realized I was out of the trance they had me help them set everything up, but I didn’t get in trouble or anything for it. They just asked that I not do it again. They were a really sweet couple. I hate that they got bought out.
Anyway, I was up for about 30-somethin’ hours, give or take.
4) I don’t like that part toward the end: “Straightened out and fixed?”
5) If anypony can find a picture of that scene from the original Dragon Ball where after being asked if he likes bacon, Oolong turns to Goku and yells, “What are you- brain dead or somethin’!?” I’d appreciate if you attached it to this post with a photo reply.
1) You lost me.
2) Thanks! Now that’s something to shoot for!
3) I don’t know what you want me to say here. It’s a tragedy and neither of the two attacks should have happened.
4) Maybe?
5) Uh… No. That doesn’t sound familiar.
6) Nah.
7)
1) You’re overgeneralizing an overgeneralization.
2) I think it’s an instanced-type thing, because I’ve welcomed them both myself as well. (We’re talking about that game.)
3) Sure. Why not?
4) I got a little teary-eyed when I found out, but I’m okay. It would have been a life changer. But since it didn’t happen, nothing changed.
5) I know, right? At least I don’t have the flu. Must have just been a cold with a fever. Fever’s gone.
6) Man is a male human. No, I’ve never needed a hitmare.
7) On my second day subbing I accepted an aid position but they forced me to sub for a whole class. I had no idea what I was doing and found out later from the librarian that I was with one of the two worst behaved classes in the school. It was a horrible day. And at the end I was supposed to lead the students to the bus, but I didn’t know and just held a door open for a few classes.
Other than a few instances of having my phone out when I wasn’t doing anything, that’s all.
1) That’s the way of the world, isn’t it?
2) I don’t suppose I have much of a response to that.
3) I dunno. Thanks though-! [Inhale] [Cough]
I guess I just try to keep things relevant to this specific tumblr.
4) I think it’s just a few that ask lots of questions.
5) Bon-Bon and I guess she would.
Not something I’ve ever thought about, to be honest.
6) Why are you acting like this is such a big deal? There are lots of countries in your world that don’t allow weapons. Going back to your example, you’d either do your best to comply with whatever’s being demanded or run. But while we’re on this train of thought, what’s to stop the assailants from having weapons if they’re legal?
And to be perfectly honest, I think it would have still happened even if Krastos did have a weapon. He’s too gentle. Or he was. I’d like to hope that, in the same situation, events wouldn’t repeat themselves.
So… yeah. We’ll find out tomorrow if I’m near death.